I would like support of backup to a backblaze destination. At the moment Im not able to set a endpoint like: s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com

Nope I had not… Now I have :slight_smile: But then again you need a ph.d to be able to do a simple thing. For futrure release Admin Usability could be an issue. Discourse have many advance features - but they are also too advance to use for an average user (me ::slight_smile: )

By the way - I only want the backup to be stored remote from the server. No need for upload like images etc is stored on a CDN. My forum is not that big or have that high usage… Its on a simple 5 dollars droplet…

Oh, that should be quite simple then. Though if it’s not too big, maybe it’s just less hassle to use AWS S3? Their pricing isn’t too bad for storage, it’s just kind of hectic for bandwidth. I think you’d just need to put this in your app.yml with the correct info and rebuild. It’s excluding the par…

Thanks for the description @markersocial I did go to Sign In and created a new bucket I then went to App Keys to create a new app key for access After the creation you temporary gets an info like below - be aware you only see this once: [Skærmbillede 2020-08-27 kl. 10.49.20] Based and that I u…

Nice work! If anyone else stumbles here, I believe that if you provide a key that can create buckets, discourse will even create the bucket for you.

Closing as this is supported out of the box by following Using Object Storage for Uploads (S3 & Clones)

REQ: Support S3 backup to a service like Backblaze

Support

markersocial August 27, 2020, 6:11am 2

Just in case you haven’t seen this: Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads

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